Strip Features 5/22/9

Okay, we’ve all seen the news about the Captain Britain comic and Shojo Beat magazine being cancelled, who will probably star as Thor and Loki in the next Marvel movie, the Wolverine nay-sayers are speaking up, Star Trek has mainstream fans again and TV networks seem to be ending the popular chows and promoting the underperformers. Oh, and one comic collector is going to jail because of his comics. Anyway, maybe some of these links can serve as a distraction for you.

Storming The Tower reviews The Zombie Hunters and the The Webcomic List has a peer review thread where the next poster reviews the last poster’s comic. As of this writing, there are about twelve comics reviewed which are filled with pretty constructive criticism. Pigs Of The Industry takes a look at Beertown B’hoys and so did MPD57. I think bMPD57 is winning out since he also covered OPSEC and Clandestino.

This 3d thing may have some potential, though it seems like an awful, awful amount of work at the start. If it someday allows for you to take a panel and spin it around to change the point of view then it could be truly groundbreaking. oooh. Then a series of talking heads would require the reader to turn the view and see who was talking next – only to see one character stomping off in anger or something. Then it’s a decision…Who do you follow in the story? Interesting. There aren’t a lot of details more than some screenshots, so perhaps I am hoping for too much.

And I’ll throw this in here from Six Chix. It never fails that I learn some new approach or handy shortcut every time I see how another artist does things. In this case, I see a mid step between writing the script and thumbnailing it which may be worth trying.

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I love comics and I’m always looking at how I can improve my own work by examining other creators’ works. Every comic has strong points we can learn from. The good results can only come by actually making comics – it takes dedication, immeasurable effort and never ending practice. What I hope we can avoid is having to learn everything by pure trial and error. Not everyone has the same skills, let alone the skill levels necessary to create great work.